• Asarum Europaeum is European Snake-root.

• Asarum Europaeum is a remedy for nervous affections and loss of energy with excessive erethism.

• Asarum Europaeum causes exquisite sensitiveness to jarring and scraping noises.

• It causes scratching on silk, linen, or paper which is unbearable.

• It causes pains and spasmodic muscular actions.

• It causes nervous deafness and asthenopia.

• It causes cold shivers from any emotion.

• The patient feels as if parts were pressed together.

• The patient experiences tension and contractive sensations.

• The patient always feels cold; a chilly sensation runs through the whole body.

• The patient experiences general weakness and prostration.

• Its symptoms are often one-sided.

• The patient experiences aversion to open air, yet feels suffocated in a warm room.

• It suits a highly sensitive, nervous individual who is easily exhausted.

• The predominantly chilly patient benefits from it.

• The patient's thoughts vanish, with drawing pressure in the forehead.

• The patient experiences increased sensibility, both mental and physical.

• The patient experiences irritability and impatience.

• The patient is easily startled.

• The patient is anxious and apprehensive, especially about health.

• The patient experiences sadness and depression, with a desire to be alone.

• The patient experiences aversion to company.

• The patient has difficulty concentrating; mental confusion.

• The patient experiences a feeling of being detached from the body.

• The patient has hypersensitivity to impressions.

• The patient has restlessness and fidgetiness.

• The patient experiences despondency and hopelessness.

• The patient has difficulty in thinking clearly.

• The patient experiences headache, often one-sided, with a feeling as if the head were compressed.

• The patient experiences drawing, pressing pain in the forehead, temples, and occiput.

• The patient experiences vertigo, with nausea and a tendency to fall.

• The patient's scalp is sensitive to touch.

• The patient's headache is better in a dark room.

• The patient experiences asthenopia; weak vision with pain and fatigue of the eyes.

• The patient experiences blurred vision, as if looking through a veil.

• The patient experiences photophobia; sensitivity to light.

• The patient experiences diplopia (double vision).

• The patient's eyes feel tired and heavy.

• The patient experiences a burning sensation in the eyes.

• The patient experiences lachrymation (tearing).

• The patient experiences nervous deafness; hearing is impaired without apparent organic cause.

• The patient experiences sensitivity to noise; loud noises are unbearable.

• The patient experiences tinnitus; ringing or buzzing in the ears.

• The patient experiences a feeling of fullness or pressure in the ears.

• The patient experiences otalgia (ear pain).

• The patient experiences frequent sneezing.

• The patient experiences a watery nasal discharge.

• The patient experiences epistaxis (nosebleeds).

• The patient's sense of smell may be heightened or diminished.

• The patient experiences dryness of the nasal passages.

• The patient experiences a sore throat, with a sensation of dryness and burning.

• The patient experiences hoarseness.

• The patient experiences difficulty swallowing.

• The patient experiences a sensation of a lump in the throat.

• The patient experiences shortness of breath, especially on exertion.

• The patient experiences a cough, dry and hacking.

• The patient experiences a feeling of oppression in the chest.

• The patient experiences palpitations, especially after emotions or exertion.

• The patient experiences a feeling of constriction around the heart.

• The patient experiences angina-like pains in the chest.

• The patient's respiration is rapid and shallow.

• The patient experiences wheezing.

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• The patient experiences nausea and vomiting.

• The patient's stomach feels empty and weak.

• The patient experiences abdominal pain, cramping and colicky.

• The patient experiences diarrhea, watery and offensive.

• The patient experiences constipation, with hard, difficult stools.

• The patient experiences tenesmus; painful straining at stool.

• The patient experiences loss of appetite.

• The patient's abdomen is distended with gas.

• The patient experiences a burning sensation in the stomach.

• The patient experiences frequent urination.

• The patient experiences a burning sensation during urination.

• The patient's urine is scanty and dark.

• In women: Irregular menses, painful menstruation.

• In men: Decreased libido.

• The patient experiences Leucorrhea (whitish or yellowish discharge from the vagina).

• The patient experiences pain in the limbs, aching and drawing.

• The patient experiences weakness and heaviness of the limbs.

• The patient experiences coldness of the hands and feet.

• The patient experiences trembling of the hands.

• The patient experiences cramps in the calves.

• The patient experiences stiffness of the joints.

• The patient experiences itching without eruption.

• The patient experiences cold sweat.

• The patient experiences sleeplessness due to nervousness.

• The patient experiences restless sleep, with frequent waking.

• The patient's dreams are vivid and disturbing.

• Motion

• Jarring

• Scraping noises

• Cold

• Emotions

• Exertion

• Morning

• Light

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• Rest

• Warmth (generally, though may feel suffocated in a warm room)

• Darkness

• Open air (sometimes, but may also feel averse)

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• Complementary remedies: Coffea Cruda, Ignatia, Nux Vomica.

• Antidotes: Camphor, Coffee, Opium.

• Comparisons: Ignatia (nervousness), Nux Vomica (irritability, sensitiveness to noise), Coffea Cruda (oversensitivity).